# Business Leadership South Africa says the hard work that the National Treasury has put into the municipal debt relief programme is not resulting in an improvement in municipal payments. Municipalities collectively owe Eskom 94.6-billion-rand. The number of municipalities with an arrear debt balance of more than 100-million-rand has increased to 75. BLSA CEO Busiswe Mavuso says what is needed is a direct intervention in how municipalities manage their finances to enforce payment to Eskom, before the revenues that are collected from electricity distribution are used for anything else.
Business Leadership SA says a systemic change is needed to tackle Eskom’s R94.6-billion municipal debt